The Invention of TraditionEric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger Cambridge University Press, 26 mar 2012 Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention – the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial rituals in British India and Africa; and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own. It addresses the complex interaction of past and present, bringing together historians and anthropologists in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism which poses new questions for the understanding of our history. |
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... earliest), the national flag (still largely a variation on the French revolutionary tricolour, evolved l790—4), or the personification of 'the nation ' in symbol or image, either oflicial, as with Marianne and Germania, or unoflicial ...
... earliest), the national flag (still largely a variation on the French revolutionary tricolour, evolved l790—4), or the personification of 'the nation ' in symbol or image, either oflicial, as with Marianne and Germania, or unoflicial ...
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... early nineteenth centuries. It occurred in three stages. First, there was the cultural revolt against Ireland: the usurpation of Irish culture and the re-writing of early Scottish history, culminating in the insolent claim that Scotland ...
... early nineteenth centuries. It occurred in three stages. First, there was the cultural revolt against Ireland: the usurpation of Irish culture and the re-writing of early Scottish history, culminating in the insolent claim that Scotland ...
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... early Scottish history those 'two learned Highlanders', James Macpherson and the Rev. John Macpherson, and thus perpetuated what has rightly been called 'a chain of error in Scottish history'.4 It took a full century to clear Scottish ...
... early Scottish history those 'two learned Highlanders', James Macpherson and the Rev. John Macpherson, and thus perpetuated what has rightly been called 'a chain of error in Scottish history'.4 It took a full century to clear Scottish ...
Pagina 19
... early in the century.8 On the other hand, a Scottish minister long afterwards recalled that the wild Highlanders in the Jacobite army which. 7 These accounts came from John Major, Historia Maioris Britanniae (l 521); James Leslie, De ...
... early in the century.8 On the other hand, a Scottish minister long afterwards recalled that the wild Highlanders in the Jacobite army which. 7 These accounts came from John Major, Historia Maioris Britanniae (l 521); James Leslie, De ...
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... gentleman) wearing trews, the other in 'a servill habit', i.e. a belted plaid (not as Stewart supposes a kilt: on this see Dunbar, op. cit., pp. 34-5). 1' On Rawlinson's Scottish venture see Alfred Fell, The Early 20 HUGH TREVOR-ROPER.
... gentleman) wearing trews, the other in 'a servill habit', i.e. a belted plaid (not as Stewart supposes a kilt: on this see Dunbar, op. cit., pp. 34-5). 1' On Rawlinson's Scottish venture see Alfred Fell, The Early 20 HUGH TREVOR-ROPER.
Sommario
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The Hunt for the Welsh Past | 43 |
Representing Authority in Victorian India | 165 |
The Invention of Tradition in Colonial Africa | 211 |
Europe 18701914 | 263 |
Index | 309 |
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